Chapter 41: The Secret Passage

The people of the Taishi Bureau chose the fourth day of the second month to rebuild the gold 'flower' fall, Qi Min ordered people to rummage through the warehouse, and finally found out the completion of the original gold 'flower' fall, and then ordered the painter to re-paint it according to his own memory and the records of the year, and then let the skilled craftsmen according to these paintings, be sure to restore the original appearance of the year to eight \ nine without leaving ten.

The new emperor came to greet me six days a month, but the two imperial concubines who lived in Nannei came every day, but fortunately, the Zhao family and the Fang family were not people who talked much. However, the side concubine who used to honor the crown prince stayed in Todai in order to take care of the new emperor, and also accompanied the emperor to greet me six times a month.

This day happened to be the morning of the last day of the first lunar month, and Concubine Fang came over to greet me with Run, and the topic somehow turned to the rebuilding of the golden 'flower'.

"I heard that the regent rebuilt his mother's former residence and the golden 'flowers' fell, many officials collected treasures among the people, and there were also merchants who presented a large number of finances to the regent, but the prince did not accept it, and used the 'private' house that he had saved for many years, and the prince was really filial. Concubine Fang said softly.

Fang Shi smiled and said, "We are in the Nannei Harem, but we have never heard of this. ”

I frowned slightly, and said with some displeasure: "These things shouldn't be left in our mouths, the side concubine takes good care of the emperor, and it's better not to ask too much about the side." ”

The side concubine hurriedly knelt down to plead guilty, I raised my hand to signal her to get up, and said that I was a little tired, so I asked them all to retreat. turned around and complained to 'Chunfen': "Although she is young, she is also a concubine in name, why is she still so childish!"

'Chun' said with a smile: "The two princes know that she is not of great use, so they let you continue to be in charge of the phoenix seal and manage the harem!"

I sighed: "Then I hope that Run's relatives will marry sooner, and then I will be able to remove this burden from my shoulders!"

"Spring" covered "lips" and smiled: "Then it will take at least ten years!"

"Ten years? "It's only been more than ten months since I entered the palace. Then he ordered: "You go and call Liu Youyu in." ”

After Liu Youyu came, I said to him: "The regent has rebuilt the account of the gold 'flower', you should pay attention to it, and report to me how much it has been used when the time comes, and take a supplement from my account to him." "Liu Youyu should have retreated, 'Chun' looked at me and smiled, I 'wanted' to cover up and said: "When he was a prince, he was so little, and he didn't make any money, anyway, I have saved up all the money for so many years, and I have nowhere to use it!"

Chunfen smiled: "The slave maid didn't say anything, why are you in a hurry to explain." ”

I glared at her angrily and went to the side hall to call Yuan Xi and Baoyue for breakfast.

At the beginning of February, the fourth golden 'flower' fell began to be rebuilt, my Changqing Hall is located in the southeast corner of the dragon pond, and the golden 'flower' fall has to pass through the dragon pond, in the north of the agarwood pavilion. If you want to fall from the golden 'flower' to the Changqing Palace, you have to go through the fairy 'gate' to the agarwood pavilion first, and then walk south along the dragon pond to arrive. Ever since the craftsman came in, I have ordered the fairy 'door' to be locked to prevent trouble.

The progress of the craftsmen was not fast, and after more than a month of repair, it still looked the same as before, so I had to call Zhong Ran, who was in charge of the matter.

"Are the people in the Ministry of Industry accustomed to being idle on weekdays? When it's time to do things, they can't lift their 'spirits'?"

Zhong Ran's face was red, and he said: "It's the Weichen who is not in control, and I ask the Empress Dowager to forgive me." ”

I shook my head helplessly and said, "Although the regent didn't urge you, it's really not good if the construction period is delayed for a long time, if you give me an accurate word, how long will it take to fix it?"

Zhong Ran hesitated for a moment and said, "According to the regent's intentions, I'm afraid it will take more than a month." ”

I couldn't help laughing: "It's only been three months since the golden 'flower' was completed, but it will take three months for you to repair it, this project is too huge, right?" ”

Zhong Ran looked at the palace people on the left and right, and as soon as I raised my hand, the 'spring' immediately took the palace people to retreat. Zhong Ran approached me and said in a low voice, "As far as I know, the reason why the regent dragged out the construction period so slowly was that he built a secret passage between the golden 'flower' and the agarwood pavilion. ”

My heart suddenly struck, and I hurriedly asked, "Is this true?"

Zhong Ran smiled bitterly: "If you hadn't asked me, I wouldn't have talked about it to the outside world, this is a ...... Relationship royal face. ”

"He's so bold, what the hell is he going to do!" I couldn't help but be a little angry, and immediately said, "Go and call him! Wait......" I calmed my anger for a moment, thought for a moment, and said, "Now go and tell him that you 'revealed' this secret, just go down first! I'll ask you later." ”

However, before I could find Qi Ming, he came by himself in the evening.

"I heard that the Empress Dowager summoned Lord Wailang Cui today, but for the sake of the golden 'flower'?"

My face was very bad, and I said, "Since you know, you should make it clear to the mourning family, what are you going to do?"

He sipped his tea and said nothing, I waved my hand to make everyone stand back, got off the phoenix seat, walked up to him and asked again: "Enlightenment, what is the purpose of building a secret passage?"

He put down the tea bowl, looked up, looked at me and smiled, and said, "I just accidentally discovered a secret." He stood up, took a scroll from his side, laid it on the ground, and motioned for me to look at it.

I looked at it and felt a little familiar, and asked, "What is this?"

He said: "This is the underground plan of Nannei, and the entire underground of Nannai is interconnected, but some secret passages were blocked after the death of my father." ”

The golden 'flower' fall and the Nanxun Palace, the diligent government building and the Datong Palace, etc., are indeed connected, but only between the former emperor and Concubine Zhen.

He said slowly: "On the day my mother gave birth, the imperial brother went straight from the secret passage of the Agarwood Pavilion to the golden 'flower', and 'forced' my mother to choose herself or my life. His tone was light, and he didn't seem to have much sadness, and continued: "My father also died in the golden 'flower' fall, I was also present at the time, my father asked me to leave quickly, but I didn't go, I hid in the secret passage, and watched how the emperor's brother 'forced' my father to write an edict and pass it on to him. I didn't dare to come out, for fear of being discovered by the imperial brother, but I still accidentally touched something and made a sound, hugged my mother and pushed me into the secret passage, and greeted me myself...... I didn't dare to stay any longer, crawling in the secret passages, and I didn't know where I was, except for the strong smell of blood...... In the end, I hid in the dragon pond and survived. Just the three closest people to me, all ...... Died at his hands. ”

His back was to me, his back was lonely and sad, and no amount of palace lights could redeem him from the dark cage. I gently hugged him, and he turned around, took me in his arms, and said nothing.

I finally understood a little bit why Qiheng was so kind to this young brother. Because of him, took everything from him.